The Rabbi Candy Box

Monday, November 20, 2017

Yankel sadly loved the hard drink, he was homeless, drunk most of the times, and wandered the
streets.
One day there was a hurricane and Yankel ran into the first building for shelter.
It happened to be a church.
He sits down on the bench and hears the priest giving a sermon:
"Who are the wealthiest people? The liquor store owners. They are rich because they are taking
your money.
“And who own the nicest homes? The liquor store owners. They are rich because they are taking
your money...
“And who drive the nicest cars? The liquor store owners. Because they are taking your money!”
After the sermon Yankel went over to the priest to thank him. "What an inspiring speech. It
really left an impact on me, and I made a practical resolution as a result."
"You mean you are going to stop drinking," the priest asked with excitement.
“No,” Yankel said. “I ́m going to open a liquor store.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”– Leo F. Buscaglia

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”– Swedish Proverb

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”– E. Joseph Cossman

”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”– George Bernard Shaw

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”– Dale Carnegie

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”– Elbert Hubbard

“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.”– George F. Burns

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”– Winston Churchill

“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”– Arthur Somers Roche

“If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”– Dean Smith

“When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.”– Joseph Joubert

“That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”– Chinese Proverb

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”– Cullen Hightower

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”– Erma Bombeck

“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.”– Harold Stephen

“People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.”– John Jay Chapman

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”– Nelson DeMille

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”– Robert Frost

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”– Henry Ward Beecher

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”– John Newton

“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”– Dale Carnegie

“I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”– Winston Churchill

“Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”– Robert Eliot

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”– John Lubbock

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”– Mary Hemingway

“Every evening I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway,” said a wise man.

Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.

Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's sunshine.
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

For 20 years a woman had been having trouble getting to sleep at night because she feared burglars. One
night her husband heard a noise in the house, so he went downstairs to investigate. When he got there, he did find a burglar. "Good evening," said the man of the house. "I am pleased to see you. Come upstairs
and meet my wife. She has been waiting 20 years to meet you."

Harry called up his old friend Berny . Can we meet Saturday morning?
I’m busy, Berny says.
What are you up to?
I go to shul now Saturday mornings!
Really? You? You go to shul? Asks Harry. You are an atheist! And
you are on a diet, so you can’t even enjoy the Kiddish?
I will tell you, says Berny. You remember our friend Yankel Miller? Rumor has it that he started to go to
shul on Shabbos morning, and he became a billionaire. So I also started to go to shul on Saturday mornings.
Really Berny? And what do you do in shul? You talk to G-d? You don’t even believe He exists?
No, says Berny. Never! That’s what Yankel does in shul. He talks to G-d. I go to shul to talk to Yankel!

With great
remorse, a man entered the private room of Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch to ask for
a formula for repentance. Since the man was ashamed to admit that he was the
sinner, he explained that a friend had committed the sins and was too
embarrassed to appear before the Rebbe personally. Therefore, his friend had
asked him to come to the Rebbe on his behalf. Consequently, the visitor then
gave the Rebbe a list of sins his “friend” had supposedly committed.

“What a
fool the other man is,” the Rebbe answered with a knowing smile, “instead of
sending you to ask for him, he could have come himself and said that you sent
him!” (Told by the Rebbe, 12 Tammuz 5714.)

You’ve
heard the story about the Californian policeman who pulled a car over and told
the driver that because he had been wearing his seatbelt, he had just won
$5,000 dollars in the statewide safety competition.

"What
are you going to do with the money?" asked the policeman.

"Well,
I guess I'm going to get a driver's license," he answered.

"Oh,
don't listen to him," yelled the woman in the passenger seat.

"He
speaks nonsense when he's drunk."

This
woke up the guy in the back seat, who took one look at the police officers and
moaned, "I knew we wouldn't get far in a stolen car."

At that
moment, there was a knock from the trunk and a voice said, in Spanish,
"Por Vavor…. excuse me, but have we crossed the border yet?"